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A program which provides support to young people who live with a parent with mental illness will benefit from the Inaugural Menzies Alumni Community Leadership Grants, awarded in Sydney this week. The small grants program, which encourages Menzies scholars to pursue their community leadership and volunteering activities, has been launched by the Menzies Foundation and […]

Contributing to the development of refugee policy and creating greater awareness of Australia’s international legal obligations is what Lyndon Goddard would like to do when he returns from studying a Master of Laws at Cambridge. The recipient of the 2017 Sir Ninian Stephen Menzies Scholarship in International Law, Lyndon first got a sense of the

Immersion in subjects examining the crossover between politics, administrative and constitutional law, along with a unique experience working for the UNHCR, have inspired 2017 Sir Robert Menzies Scholarship in Law recipient, Nathan Van Wees, to complete a Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. “Initially I thought I would put my knowledge to

2014 NHMRC/RG Menzies Scholar in Medicine, Dr Si Ming Man, has continued his outstanding publishing record with another important paper on activating danger-sensing proteins in cells, published in journal Cell. Si Ming is half way through his fellowship and is part of the research team at St Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The paper

Human rights and refugee advocate, Julian Burnside AO, and Grand Designs Australia host, Peter Maddison, will headline an event to celebrate 10 years of Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and its humanitarian projects around the world in November. Founder of AWF, Professor Esther Charlesworth, 1993-94 Harvard Menzies Scholar, will celebrate a decade of collaboration with Australian

The Inaugural Sir Robert Menzies Indigenous Mentoring Fellowship is open for applications as a result of a partnership between the Menzies Foundation and the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS). MITS opened earlier this year to help students from remote Indigenous communities transition to school and life in Melbourne. Each year 20 boys and girls will

If the definition of leadership is helping others achieve their potential, then there could be no better leader than 2003 Menzies Research Scholar in the Allied Health Sciences, Dr Kerry Proctor. It is a measure of the woman that she sees her current role as the Manager of an Indigenous Program with The Bouverie Centre

Professor Bill Rawlinson AM has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences for his work in translational research into cytomegalovirus (CMV) amongst other achievements. Senior Medical Virologist and 1991 Menzies Scholar in Medicine, Professor Rawlinson joins fellow Menzies Scholars, Professor Robyn O’Hehir AO, Professor Jamie Vandenberg and Professor Matthew

A smartphone app to aid parents in the early detection of Autism developed using research by Menzies Scholar, Dr Josephine Barbaro, who is working at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, is one of the 10 Australian finalists in the Google Impact Challenge. Members of the public are invited to vote for the not-for-profit project

Baroness Valerie Amos certainly left her mark when she visited Melbourne last week to deliver the Menzies Oration on Higher Education. Lady Amos, former UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, spoke of her experiences during seven visits to Syria on the Policy Shop podcast with University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, Glyn Davis. She also spoke to The